It’s hard to beat Chicago in the summer. There always seems like an endless stream of baseball games, food truck festivals, movie nights at Grant Park, and concerts. After all, Chicago is home to a Blues Festival, a Jazz Festival, Riot Fest, Lollapalooza, and, of course, the Ravinia Festival.
Ravinia was founded in 1904. It has hosted concerts during both World Wars and the 1918 flu pandemic. Today Ravinia cancelled their entire summer calendar for the first time since the Great Depression.
I imagine this will be the first of many cancellations and I feel tremendously sad about it even though it’s the right thing to do given the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.